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Thanks, I have followed her

trkingmomoe — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:45:19 +0000

In reply to Her early work for children..

Thanks, I have followed her career ever since. This was before I knew about Bill and I always felt she was the star of that team. There is so much good will for her internationally.

I am optimistic because she has built a large amount of respect all over the country. I know Republicans that plan to vote for her if she makes it to the general election. The Clintons are still well liked in the south.

Her early work for children..

oldenGoldenDecoy — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 06:06:22 +0000

In reply to I also get tears in my eyes

Hillary's early work for children...

In 1970, she secured a grant and first went to work for the Children's Defense Fund. The following summer, she first came to Washington, D.C. working on Senator Walter Mondale's (Minnesota Democrat) subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education. In the summer of 1972, she worked in the western states for the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's campaign. During her second year in law school, Hillary Clinton volunteered at Yale's Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development, as well as New Haven Hospital, where she took on cases of child abuse and the city Legal Services, providing free legal service to the poor.

From : Hillary's Bio - The National First Ladies' Library

And... In our lives the children in Special Education have been a very high priority in our home. My wife just retired from serving children in Special Ed over the past 31 years. And we both were solidly behind Hillary's support of these educational programs. We're still active.

Here's a quote from the 2007 Des Moines Register Democratic Debate (my highlights).

"Let's do what we've said we were going to do. How about funding special education, which we never have to the extent that we promised, putting a lot of burdens on states and local districts? How about fully funding whatever we ask the local communities to do? So I want to have a very holistic view of this, because if you go into a classroom today, it doesn't look like the 21st century in most instances, it looks very familiar to me, who was last in a classroom decades ago."

Source:

2007 Des Moines Register Democratic Debate , Dec 13, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/13/se.01.html

~OGD~

Did that back in 2008 aplenty

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:00:08 +0000

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Did that back in 2008 aplenty - women's rights and family issues, rural poverty, even that healthcare stuff (including SCHIP) she took so much crap for. Probably other stuff, but people decided the hopey/changed dude would change Washington but of course didn't, so this time I'm not going to even worry about platform positions because most people can't be bothered with details and lies anyway and it's more about what I expect them to do in office, not what bullshit they have to say to get elected or followers will put on them to grow a new halo. Still waiting for this face-to-face sitdowns with no preconditions, among other fantasies. The best I can hope for Hillary is an Angie Merkel ability to tell them to fuck off in a classy way that they won't even know what hit them nor how to respond. Hill girl's not quite a master but she's getting there. The biggest thing I took from the URLs I told you to go read is how organized she is. Expect she'll be able to juggle more than the typical Washington 1-2 balls at a time. And as OK notes She's left of middle, tho in a note most people ignored, I pointed out she was the 11th most liberal member of the senate. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/31/1374629/-Hillary-Clinton-Was-th...

You're asking him to write

ocean-kat — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:29:23 +0000

In reply to PP - perhaps you can set

You're asking him to write the equivalent of a blog and many here just don't have the time for that. It takes more than reading and remembering, to write a quality blog takes research to make sure the details are correct. This site focuses on discussion and that requires both bloggers and commenters. You provide a service to this site by posting a blog for discussion. But you should expect vigorous debate here and mostly people expect bloggers to defend their blog. Or admit they're mistaken.

I'm pretty left so no candidate will ever win the presidency that's as liberal as I am. Even if Warren were to run I'm not sure I'd vote for her. I just read her most recent book. Her life's focus has been economic issues and how the law deals with them. I like her views in that area. But I have no idea what her views are in any other area, especially foreign policy, and she doesn't seem to have spent much time studying or thinking about them. Foreign policy is important and I don't think I want someone learning on the job.

I'm a liberal and Hillary is a left of center moderate, so is Obama. I've criticized Obama a lot and I'm sure I'll criticize Hillary a lot if she becomes president. But moderates always win in the democratic party, liberals can only try to push them as far left as possible. There's a few things most people seem to agree upon about Hillary. She's smart and she's a hard worker. She gets into the nitty gritty policy details and she does her homework. No matter how tedious the job she puts her nose to the grind stone and gets to work. And she's a tenacious fighter for her policies. Those are qualities that I think are needed now.

As Hillary released more policy details over the next year and a half I'm sure we'll be picking apart everything she says and does here. But for now this feel good video that embraces the diversity that is the democratic party is a good begining to that campaign.

I also get tears in my eyes

trkingmomoe — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:04:49 +0000

In reply to The more I think about this

I also get tears in my eyes thinking about her being president. I know where her heart is and it has been in the same place since I first heard her speak. This was in the 1970's at college during a women's lecture week end. She talked about children that were caught up in the foster care system and the rights that were being denied these kids. Republicans talk about family values but it is through the theme of bigotry and homophobic fears. HRC will put families first and invest in them. We all know she is a tough fighter and will stand up to the crazies in congress.

PP - perhaps you can set

HSG — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:04:03 +0000

In reply to I'm sure Hillary has

PP - perhaps you can set forth HRC's specific policy proposals and positions that you find appealing. You might even convince me that there's more there there than I think.

It wasn't "running away" - it

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:24:31 +0000

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It wasn't "running away" - it was "not wearing him around her neck"

I'm sure Hillary has

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:21:47 +0000

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I'm sure Hillary has positions on all of these things.

And she and her advisors decided that going anal on wonky policy points 19 months before the election wasn't the strategy they needed at this moment.

Hal Ginsberg is disappointed. Most Americans I'm sure don't know what Keystone is, and diving into the Iran agreement & Senate vote seems to be one of the stupidest things she could do to separate herself from the dozen Republican idiots stirring up this fiasco - isn't there enough idiot opinion on this in the blogosphere? Isn't stepping into this melee the worst opportunity to just create meaningless self-defeating soundbites? Will Iran nukes even be on the radar in November 2016 or January 2017? Very doubtful.

So again, I don't understand your purpose except to find something to bitch about - you have a few petulant points you want dealt with now like Veruca Salt, but don't give any consideration to what Clinton needs to do to actually win an election - e.g. you pretend to be analyzing this from a campaign perspective but instead it's your policy wishlist.

I'm also less than impressed with the "she hasn't told us" line, because there were points before you claimed this about yet they were easily found in her voting record and platforms at different points. So not only do you want your pet points addressed, you need them dropped in your lap again even though she's already expressed them.

What's truly incredible,

barefooted — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:18:14 +0000

In reply to The more I think about this

What's truly incredible, Still, is that most girls her age don't see a woman president as anything unusual - it just hasn't happened yet. And that's even more beautiful than the history it will make ... because they already see the future.

The more I think about this

stillidealistic — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:10:57 +0000

In reply to In a post about DeBlasio's

The more I think about this country from the standpoint of what I think is best for my granddaughters, the more excited I get about Hillary's campaign. I showed Hillary's picture to my eldest (she's 10) and told her that she is running to be President, and I actually choked up. It caught me by surprise.